Statue of the emperor Augustus (Χ23322)

χαρακτηριστικά

Monument type : Statue of mounting figure

Material : Copper

Date : 12 - 10 B.C.

Τοποθεσία : Aegean sea

Unit : NAM

Περιγραφή

Statue of the emperor Augustus. (31BC - AD 14). The emperor is depicted in mature age, mounting a horse, which is missing. He wears a tunica with a vertical purple stripe (clavus purpurea) and a fringed paludamentum decorated with a maeander pattern. The right hand is raised in a gesture of official greeting. The hilt of his sword can be seen below the left hand, in which he held the horse’s reigns. On the bezel of his finger-ring a staff of divination (lituus) is engraved, symbolising the supreme religious office of Pontifex Maximus, assumed by Augustus in 12 BC. Found in the Aegean sea between the islands of Euboea and Agios Efstratios. H. 1.23m.